Pizza Hut's Newest Dessert Is an 8-Inch Cookie

July 14, 2014 1:44 PM

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After a Papa John’s (PZZA) exec bragged on the popularity of its new pizza-sized Mega Chocolate Chip Cookie, Pizza Hut (YUM) has decided it too can make a big old cookie. On Monday, it launches a eight-inch chocolate chip cookie—cut into eight triangular slices—nationwide. It’s the second Hershey-branded dessert on Pizza Hut’s menu, joining Chocolate Dunkers. You can also get cinnamon sticks, as yet unbranded.

Pizza Hut has not always been on top of menu trends. It just launched barbecue pizza in May, long after Papa John’s, Domino’s (DPZ), and California Pizza Kitchen, and customers have not been impressed by its latest attempts. Yum brands chief executive David Novak called out the chain’s hand-tossed p...